{"product_id":"nana","title":"Nana","description":"\u003cp\u003e'She was the golden beast, an unconscious force, the very scent of her could bring the world to ruin.'  Nana, daughter of a drunk and a laundress, is the Helen of Troy of Paris. A sexually magnetic high-class prostitute and actress, she becomes a celebrity, rapidly conquering society, ruining all men who fall under her spell-especially Count Muffat, Chamberlain to the Empress. Nana\n\u003cbr\u003eherself meets a terrible fate, consumed by her own dissipation and extravagance, just as the disastrous war with Prussia is declared.  Nana is the ninth instalment in the twenty volume Rougon-Macquart series. The novel opens in 1867, the year\n\u003cbr\u003eof the World Fair, when Paris, thronged by a cosmopolitan élite, was la Ville Lumière, the glittering setting-and object-of Zola's scathing denunciation of society's hypocrisy and moral corruption. Nana comes to symbolize the Second Empire regime itself in all its excesses; but in the final chapters, the narrator seems to suggest that the coming disaster is not so much a result of the corruption of the Empire, as of rampant female sexuality.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46058586865902,"sku":"9780198814269","price":20.91,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0630\/9612\/7726\/files\/9780198814269.jpg?v=1736479095","url":"https:\/\/bookland.com.au\/products\/nana","provider":"Book Land AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}